Do you know about Monster Planet, a monthly evening of bad movies and improvised electronica? We have multitrack recorded every moment of every show for the past 2 years, in order to capture those moments of sonic synchronisity when the 5 unrehearsed musicians on stage all lock into the same vibe and something truly wonderful flows from the speakers. “Monster Planet — Year One” is a collection of some of our favorite moments from the first 12 shows.

I can’t help but think back to the heyday of The Orb and Future Sound of London when I listen to this stuff, so if that breed of amorphous, psychedelic ambiance is your thing, you should love what we’ve been cooking up at Monster Planet.

Here’s a great little video bio on Rain, aka Phuturprimitive.

Directed by Jason Mongue, www.jasonmongue.com

I’m really enjoying this new Iboga Records comp, Everlasting—compiled by Gaudi. I’ve featured most of the included artists in my Psilicon Dreams mixes, so if you are a fan, then don’t miss picking up this release.

Feast your ears on this new helping of psy-delicious from Globular. It’s a free download too!

Watch this space as we will yet again attempt a live broadcast of tonight’s Monster Planet unsanity. The show starts at 9pm PST.

From a a series of pieces centering around Jimi Hendrix by the masterful Moebius. Spotted at theairtightgarage.tumblr.com.

I’m trying something a little different with this one, both in delivery and content. Here’s a Youtube playlist of some nice-n’-heady rock/metal/post to get you through the next couple of hours.

Enjoy!

Set list:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Dead Flag Blues
Clutch – Spacegrass
The Black Angels – Empire
Grails – I Led Three Lives
Sunn O))) & Boris – The Sinking Belle
Black Sabbath – The Story Behind Planet Caravan
Pantera – Planet Caravan
Sigur Ros – I Gaer
Alice in Chains – Whale and Wasp
Tool – Parabol
Grails – Drawn Curtains
Implodes – Marker
Earth – Plage of Angels (Angel Coma version)
Pink Floyd – Echoes / Live at Pompeii

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You know about Monster Planet, right? It’s where we take over a bar with 5 musicians, terrible B-movie montages, and improvise the rest from 9pm-1am.

Tune in tonight, Monday, January 9, 9pm-1am PST, as we attempt to live stream the Monster Planet insanity for your delight and bewilderment. Expect technical glitches (from space!) as we work out the bugs (from beyond time!), along with our regular cast of weird, strange, sick and twisted. Tonight’s auditory experience will be provided by Pezzner, Nio, Gel-Sol, William Mempa, and Blake Peterson. With visual entertainment by Killing Frenzy.

I’m really digging the fusion of ambient, crunky dub, and glitchy IDM in this new album from Liquid Stranger. I was not super into his last one, The Arcane Terrain, but I knew this one was different mere seconds into hearing the first track. Cryogenic Encounters is sure to get a lot of play time from me.